On 7/14/14 8:07 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 14 July 2014 15:39, Christian Liendo
<christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote:
One person's take on retro computing older
Unix machines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkuRiDS-gU
Engagingly inept in places -- I'm amused at how XScreensaver kept
kicking in -- but enthusiastic and he raised a lot of good points.
For me, part of the appeal of old kit is old software, but running it
with a modern OS would reduce a lot of the problems, it's true...
Someone needs to write a real introduction. As you say, 'engagingly inept'.
The one thing that struck me was he glossed over how difficult detailed
hardware maintenance information is to find for all of these machines. I've
been actively looking for it for 30 years, the tiny bit of early Sun and SGI
docs I have came from old-timers I knew at the companies that saved it.
I guess it isn't surprising that people are having trouble now finding software
and docs for late-80s, early-90's Multiframes, etc.
If you're just going to run a modern NetBSD, why on earth would you bother
running it on slow, memory-constrained hardware from the 80's?